well is your relationship with arthur schlesinger junior like? mr. leuchtenburg: i first encountered him when i was on the national staff of americans for democratic action in washington. and then i was the massachusetts state director, and when -- a rocky mountain organizer for them. the first conference that was held in washington, in march 1947, i remember hubert humphrey, who is the 37-year-old young mayor of minneapolis on stage, and saying he wished his parents could see him because they would not have imagined he and eleanor roosevelt were on the same stage. afterwards, i talked to arthur schlesinger junior about a research project that, i as a graduate student was interested in, and that started a lifelong friendship. not many years later, i was appointed to the faculty at harvard, and we were colleagues together. in the years i was teaching at columbia, he was in the graduate center and the city university of new york so we saw one another. mr. brinkley: the late historian stephen ambrose once mentioned to me, we use as a test, abandon the c

. >> host: here is the book, gerald posner is the >> >> aho this series began by arthur's schlesinger, jr. end continued of her short biographies of nearly every president focusing on ronald reagan is the most recent. booktv has covered numerous barriers reason you can watch on the web site. my eight kids in tonight's and please keep this in mind we will have a a q&a session please get to the microphone if you do have a question. mehrsa baradaran george the faculty in fall 2012 saarinen is an associate professor. she previously tied pinky regulations at brigham young. during your time she has received significant media coverage pavilion tickets come in here temin's and american baker isn't there shall isn't international publications for go she earned her bachelor's from brigham young and her law degree from n.y.u. serving as a member from the law review. please give a warm wall come to mehrsa baradaran. [applause] >> thanks for having me. he is great to see just books if you say i've been in good -- a view the rest of my said i need a pick me up they gave me the most depressing but i

schlesinger. they were books on franklin pierce and chester arthur and all. i thought the series sort of went away when doctor schloss and your dash the unimaginative but i thought john dean wrote the book on board harding. is it still going on? and a garland of books on obama and spitted yesterday are all done now except except for clinton which is in progress. obama ism code some point, might be years from now but you don't almost all the president and they're all written by different people. some art historians, some are journalists and some are hard others. gail collins had william henry harrison who was present in 30 days and the book basically as a supposed be about the presidency. so she said there was nothing, nothingthat she used every piece of information she could find it was nothing left on the cutting room or. reagan was the opposite. a wealth of material, so much stuff that you to digest it and. they are parallel at different kinds of exercises. >> were you strictly limited to 200 pages? >> it was a word limit but not by too much. the point of i